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October 29 2007 By virtueonline Christianity Is No "Leap of Faith"

A group of evangelical Christian pilgrims take part in a baptism ceremony in the Jordan River, near the Sea of Galilee October 1, 2007. Some 600 Evangelical Christian pilgrims from Brazil attended a baptism ceremony at the Jordan River on Monday. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman (ISRAEL)

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October 26 2007 By virtueonline Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian -- So What?

There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on CNBC that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?

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October 26 2007 By virtueonline Love Isn't Enough: 5 Reasons Why Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Children

Men and women bring diversity to parenting; each makes unique contributions to the rearing of children that can't be replicated by the other. Mothers and fathers simply are not interchangeable. Two women can both be good mothers, but neither can be a good father.

So here are five reasons why it's in the best interest of children to be raised by both a mother and a father:

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October 26 2007 By virtueonline The God Delusion and Alister E McGrath

Richard Dawkins: I believe that the question of the existence of God or Gods, supernatural beings, is a scientific question, whereas other scientists will say it's nothing to do with science, science and religion occupy two quite separate majesteria and don't overlap. I think they do overlap, I think they both attempt to answer the same kinds of questions. The difference is that religion gets the answers wrong.

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October 25 2007 By virtueonline Why Muslims Follow Jesus

In the eyes of those who long for Muslims to know Jesus as they do, the unprecedented trickles-and in a few cases, floods-of Muslims who have chosen to follow Christ in previously evangelistically arid lands undoubtedly constitute the "best of times." In the late 1960s, there was a major turning to Christ among the Javanese in Indonesia, following a conflict between Muslims and communists. We have seen similar movements in North Africa and South Asia, along with smaller ones elsewhere.

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October 25 2007 By virtueonline Fr. Euteneuer Sees 'Irony' in Archbishop of Canterbury's Abortion Statement

"The 'slippage' Dr. Williams speaks of is precisely what Pope Pius XI warned of in the Papal encyclical, Castii Conubii, issued in response to Lambeth, and what Pope Paul VI reiterated in his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. These popes said that the widespread use of contraception would lead to 'a general lowering of morality'. By now we see this in our entire society. On the social as well as the personal levels, contraception and abortion are two sides of the same bad penny." Fr.

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October 20 2007 By virtueonline Big Shots, Born Again by John Schmalzbauer

In "The Protestant Establishment," E. Digby Baltzell chronicled the "growth and decay" of the WASP aristocracy, describing its patrician families, elite boarding schools and Ivy League universities and noting their waning influence. Writing in 1964, Baltzell saw the election of John F. Kennedy, an Irish Catholic, as a hopeful sign. And, indeed, later researchers documented the opening of the elite to Catholics and Jews.

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October 12 2007 By virtueonline Evangelicals, liberals seek dialogue on 'culture war' issues

Laser -- who has worked for abortion-rights groups in the past -- introduced a group of evangelical leaders at a press conference announcing the project, titled "Come Let Us Reason Together." Sponsored by Third Way and Faith in Public Life, the effort began with a paper outlining reasons why both sides believe they can have civil conversations -- and perhaps even cooperate -- on social issues as controversial as abortion and homosexuality.

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October 12 2007 By virtueonline Muslims Leaders Warn Pope 'Survival of World' at Stake

The phrasing has echoes of the New Testament passage: "He that is not with me is against me" - a passage used by President George Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11.

The Muslims call instead for the emphasis to be on the shared characteristics of world's two largest faiths.

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October 10 2007 By virtueonline Cohabitation is bad for men, worse for women, and horrible for children

2. Relationships are unstable: One-sixth of cohabiting couples stay together for only three years; one in ten survives five or more years (Bennett, W.J., The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family, 2001).

3. Greater risk of divorce: The rate of divorce among those who cohabit prior to marriage is nearly double (39 percent vs. 21 percent) that of couples who marry without prior cohabitation (ibid.).

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